Family Guy (tv program)

UPDATED: AMC's "Mad Men" was always a show more loved by the media than the public. Central Florida ratings for the series finale illustrate that point: Don Draper ranked No. 62 for the night with 20,137 viewers. "Mad Men" was no "Breaking Bad" or "Walking Dead" in the ratings. Sunday's top show in the ratings was ABC's telecast of the Billboard Music Awards with 186,137 viewers. It was the best showing for the Billboard telecast in the last five years. (It was also the most-watched broadcast nationally for the night.) The other most-watched broadcasts locally were CBS' "60 Minutes" with 137,447 viewers,...

The hubbub over hack-attacked Sony's release of "The Interview" was too big, too serious, too far-reaching to qualify for the Alewife Awards. Since 1996 these prizes, named after the stinky fish that used to wash up regularly on Chicago's...

"If TV has taught me anything, it's that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas," the now-familiar spiky-haired boy said on Dec. 17, 1989. "It happened to Tiny Tim. It happened to Charlie Brown. It happened to the Smurfs. And it's...

"Hello?" I said into the phone, questioning whether the line's crackling was the sign of a bad connection or a dropped call.
"Hello?" replied a voice I thought to be my own: an echolike combination of nasally, high-pitched and...

As Thomas Wolfe once wrote (and I believe I'm accurate here): You can go home again despite the fact your new sitcom on Fox just pulled a 0.7/2 rating among viewers 18 to 49, attracting 1 million fewer eyeballs than your lead-in, a "Family...

President Obama will deliver the introduction to the new Fox science series “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” in the premiere episode Sunday night being carried on 10 Fox channels and the National Geographic Channel.
The president's introduction “invites a...

As the 10-year anniversary of the most talked-about moment in Cubs history approaches, it turns out everyone was wrong all along.
Touching the famous foul ball in Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series wasn't the worst thing to happen...

You've probably seen — or heard — Alexandra Breckenridge on some of your favorite television series. She portrays Katerina on HBO's "True Blood" and spent six years doing voice work for animated shows such as Fox's "Family Guy" and...

Even people who never saw "Sabado Gigante" have probably seen a parody of it.
The over-the-top Spanish-language variety show -- which broadcaster Univision is shutting down after 53 years -- has been spoofed numerous times throughout its...

Alex Borstein is known as much for her voice as for her face. The actress is the voice of Lois Griffin on the animated series "Family Guy." Also a writer, producer and comedian, Borstein was most recently seen as Dawn on the HBO series...

Minnie Driver, who starred in the TV miniseries "The Red Tent," has pulled up stakes, selling her Hollywood Hills home for $1.5 million.
The Spanish-style house, built in 1926 and boasting original details, features a central courtyard....

Comic and radio personality Adam Carolla, who stars in the recently renewed Spike TV series "Catch a Contractor," has sold his retreat in Malibu for $3.6 million.
The 1.7-acre property, with ocean, coastline and sunset views, contains a main...

Most Hollywood marriages don't turn out like this.
Fifteen years ago, several executives were jockeying for a plum position running 20th Century Fox Television, the production company behind "The Simpsons" and "Ally McBeal." The...

As a youngster growing up in Walla Walla, Wash., Adam West devoured "Batman" comic books and even did a little play-acting as the Caped Crusader.
"Then I forgot about it," said the 86-year-old actor during a recent phone interview...

An era ended this weekend, and I completely missed it.
Gizmodo, in a fine story you can read by clicking here, noted this was the first weekend in who-knows-how-many generations in which there was no Saturday morning cartoon programming on American...

Conservatives branded it an assault on family values. The nation's drug czar warned recovering addicts not to watch it. Schools barred clothing featuring its images.
But when "The Simpsons" premieres its 26th season Sunday, TV's longest-running...

Come November on HBO, it's farewell meets revival meets second chances.
HBO has christened Nov. 9 as the launch night for the new seasons of "The Newsroom," "The Comeback" and "Getting On," beginning at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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When he takes command of CBS' "Late Show" next year, Stephen Colbert will have to battle the two Jimmys, Fallon and Kimmel. But he'll also square off against a robot chicken, a mad scientist and a talking hamburger.
From the humblest of...

Fox's "Family Guy" and ABC's "Resurrection" were Sunday night's highest-rated network shows among key young adults, though it appears that golf-boosted CBS had the best ratings overall.
"Family Guy" scored a rating...

Was "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" a red giant in the TV ratings or more of a white dwarf?
Well, that depends on whom you ask.
The science-minded people at Fox predict that Sunday's premiere of "Family Guy" producer Seth...